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A metascientific and infraepistemological framework arguing that science and its standards of knowledge are constructed—not merely discovered—through social, historical, and material practices. It examines how scientific methods, categories, and norms are built, maintained, and sometimes dismantled; how “objectivity” is an achievement of particular communities, not a natural default; and how what counts as knowledge depends on the infrastructure (labs, journals, funding) that supports it. The theory is a foundation for science studies, showing that science is robust not because it transcends social context but because it is a successful, self‑correcting human practice—still constructed, still accountable.
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